Flaubert in Egypt: A sensibility on tour : a narrative drawn from Gustave Flaubert's travel notes & letters - Hardcover

Gustave Flaubert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0897330196 ISBN 13: 9780897330190

Publisher: Academy Chicago Limited, 1979

Synopsis

At once a classic of travel literature and a penetrating portrait of a 'sensibility on tour', Flaubert in Egypt wonderfully captures the young writer's impressions during his 1849 voyages. Using diaries, letters, travel notes, and the evidence of Flaubert's travelling companion, Maxime Du Camp, Francis Steegmuller reconstructs his journey through the bazaars and brothels of Cairo and down the Nile to the Red Sea.

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From the Back Cover:

At once a classic of travel literature and a penetrating portrait of a sensibility on tour, Flaubert in Egypt wonderfully captures the young writer's impressions during his 1849 voyage to the "Orient". Using diaries, letters, travel notes, and the evidence of Flaubert's traveling companion Maxime Du Camp, Francis Steegmuller reconstructs this formative journey - through the bazaars and brothels of Cairo, down the length of the Nile, to the fabled Red Sea.

About the Author:

Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen in 1821, the son of a prominent physician. The success of Madame Bovary (1857) was ensured by government prosecution for "immorality"; Salammbô (1862) and The Sentimental Education (1869) received a cool public reception; not until the publication of Three Tales (1877) was his genius popularly acknowledged. His final bitterness and disillusion were vividly evidenced in the savagely satiric Bouvard and Pécuchet, left unfinished at his death in 1880.

About this edition

• Publisher: Academy Chicago Limited
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0897330196
• ISBN 13: 9780897330190
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Francis Steegmuller